{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-religious-marriages-act-2002/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-religious-marriages-act-2002/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/27",
  "legislation_title": "Divorce (Religious Marriages) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-religious-marriages-act-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision enabling a court to require the dissolution of a religious marriage before granting a civil divorce.\n[24th July 2002]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/27/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:22.553702+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}